I FIND it baffling that Cheshire East Council should favour development on green belt sites to the north west of Knutsford.

Apart from the environmental impact, lack of infrastructure and the detriment to agriculture and wildlife, the roads involved are busy enough already.

In particular there are already traffic queues on the A50 (Manchester Road) most days and if there is a problem on the M6, which happens all too frequently, the backup becomes much greater.

To add a large number of domestic and commercial vehicles to the traffic load on this road seems to me to be extremely short-sighted and likely to result in total gridlock.

R Groom Knutsford